{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-10-29","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-01-13","city":"DALHART","country_code":"US","county_code":"111","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-01-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-16","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072432","mode_s_code":"50436430","mode_s_hex":"A23D18","model":"172L","n_number":"N243W","name":"MOORE WILLIAM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Blanding","damage":"SUBS","date":"2012-04-25","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR12FA184","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during low-level maneuvering flight. Contributing to the pilot\u2019s death was the lack of a timely emergency rescue response due to the lack of effective emergency signal transmissions from both the airplane\u2019s emergency locator transmitter and the personal locator device, which were both ejected from the wreckage.","registration":"N243W","state":"UT","summary":"Accident on April 25, 2012 at Blanding, UT: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N243W is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dalhart, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 29, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Moore William, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 1981, 10 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260205 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N243W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18503820, cancelled January 2, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N243W: Accident on April 25, 2012 at Blanding, UT: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"17260205","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1601 MONTE VISTA ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00542034","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N243W","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1971,"zip":"790224818"}